Entries by John Homenuk

How the North Pacific Ocean offers winter clues in November

With Autumn very obviously and officially underway (have you been outside this morning?), questions have begun to surface regarding the upcoming winter — and if the Autumn pattern will foreshadow it. Unfortunately, it isn’t quite as simple as “A cold October means a cold winter” or ” A warm November means a warm winter”. If […]

Premium: Winter weather impacts in Northeast US this week

A dynamic storm system is expected to track through the Northeast United States later this week, bringing with it the opportunity for some frozen precipitation, particularly on the front end as the storm develops. This will be especially true in the interior and higher elevations, before warm air changes precipitation over to rain. Nearer to […]

Seasons coldest air to infiltrate the Northeast this week

The coldest air of Autumn 2016 to date will surge into the Northeast United States this week, as a deepening trough passes through the Great Lakes and Southeast Canada. After an initial surge of cold air earlier this weekend, secondary surges on the heels of multiple disturbances will arrive this week, and by midweek overnight […]

The stratosphere, blocking, and a hemispheric pattern change

What exactly could a ridge in the Kara Sea, the remnants of Hurricane Nicole, and a circulation in the stratosphere all have in common? They’ll all have significant impacts on a changing weather pattern in the Northern Hemisphere over the next two weeks. Meteorology is a fickle, uncertain, and highly detailed process in almost every […]